R600 prices posted (maybe)

Hey guys - there are so many plugged in people here, I never get the chance to be the guys to break the scoop. Maybe that will change with this post. Here is a link to a site with some R600 prices. The R600 looks like a good deal. I'm sorry if this has been posted already but I went back about 24 hours in the Graphics card forum and didnt see it. Good Reading I hope.

http://www.bootdaily.com/index.php [...] &Itemid=59

Those are great prices if correct (and if the performance is great as well) however there's just no way to be sure if these are accurate or not.

Sounds realistic. Of course I'm also sure that those prices would be per 1000 units. It's still highly likely that the debut price on these things will be closer to 600 than 500.

they seem about right, give or take $50 because of the individual pcb makers, and other goodies that may come with it.

Could somebody do a copy paste of the prices/info?

I can't get the link to work...

thanks.

*Just thinking out loud *

If top of the line R600 is only $500, with the embeded sound chip and all, it would seem to me performance will not be above the 8800GTX. I mean if such a card was available today, it would be worth an easy $600 if it held the performance crown. I would expect the second best card to be $500 (say an XT) while the best card (XTX) would be $600. Also, no talks of the XL model. I'm hoping there are 3 - X2900's at launch covering the $350, $500, and $600 range.

Yea. kinda like with two 8800s.

You can have your choice in a certain price range.

There are also reports that they might release a full line up, including low and mid range cards like X2600.

I wonder how that x2600 will perform, ATI's track record in the mid range sector hasn't been that good since the 9550Pro and the 9600xt!

Pretty good "out loud" thoughts to be sure.

I for one am sort of excited if these prices are true because while Intel is putting the chokehold on AMD for CPU price/performance maybe, just maybe, the ATI part of AMD is attempting to pull the same thing on Nvidia.
If this is the case and it is at least a tiny bit better than the 8800GTX then there might be some at least small price war in GPUs like the current CPU price war. This benefits us, the consumer, in the end so I'm very hopeful this will happen while not holding my breath either.

Very true. If they waited this long and didn't 1up Nvidia it would look pretty bad for them indeed. Just speculation but still a nice idea for us consumers if it were to turn out that way.

6 More months and I'll be pulling the trigger on 1 or 2 of these and an 8 core 4x4 system

As if it doesn't already with a G80

Well if you dont own a G80 then how do you know the drivers suck Again you dont own a G80 so dont make such foolish comments you know nothing about.

If you are referring to vista then maybe yes but as for XP drivers the last 2 from Nvidia have been rock solid and I have a collection of about 20 games ranging from a few years old to brand spanking new and guess what? All of them play perfectly fine without any driver issues whatsoever.

If I was having issues I can assure you that I would never have purchased a second 8800GTX for SLI.

Well, what drivers for Vista DON'T suck? Pretty much all of them, it's not like the G80 is alone. It'd be safer and more accurate to say that Vista Driver Support sucks.

Actually you do need to own the product before opening up your pie hole about it instead of just relying on internet chatter like yourself.

Everyone has a different level of knowledge concerning PC's and while some noob might be having issues because he doesnt know what he is doing doesnt necessarily mean that there is a legitimate issue at hand.

Then maybe just maybe you should have specified that since the majority are still using XP

true, but ATi seems to have vista drivers down pretty well .....

I just hate buying a product without seeing what the competition has to offer. G80 still doesn't deliver exceptional high res Oblivion performance either.... not that I have seen anyway! Don't get me wrong, if R600 is a flop, I'll buy a G80.

Of course, my x1950 handles everything decently well, Oblivion still puts a chokehold on it at my res

I was going by the benchmarks I had seen... like the ones here at toms (which barely have it getting over 30 at 1600x1200 with no AA)

Not once did I take a stab at you, not once did I call you a name! Your e-penis must be growing... I mean, you already have an SLI 8800 GTX setup that costs more then my whole computer put together. There is no way I could justify the kinda cash it takes to run something like that.

I was going by the things I had seen and heard. So what, maybe what I have seen was wrong, or maybe it was posted by noobs. That still gives you no right to attempt to belittle me! Don't talk to me like I am a freakin child!

I agree. People are just now getting pushed away from cards like the x850 since SM3 required games are just now coming out!!!!

What?! Is there actually a sound chip embeded into the R600?!
Let's hope heyyou27 that it does have around a 10% increase or more for the price.
James

I'm wondering if this might be due to the one using GDDR4 memory and the other using GDDR3 memory. I thought I read somewhere that ATI was going to use GDDR4 memory on the more expenisve segment of their R600 videocards and GDDR3 and the value segment of the product line. Of course, I've been reading a lot of conflicting information about the configuration of the R600 cards so its hard to have confidence about anything.

Rob

Ah yes, the mighty DRM. The G80 refresh might very well have a similar feature. And thanks to DRM, the sound can only be output via HDMI.... Woe to the fool who thinks they can watch HD content with audio coming from their nice Xfi.

And even though I know it's not what you meant Ape, I had to chuckle imagining someone buying one of these GIGANTOR cards for a regular HTPC case. You'd need a hacksaw and an imperial gallon of Vaseline to make it fit, and then the included PSU wouldn't even be nearly enough... Oh well, I was planning on just using a tower for my HTPC anyway, I'll hide it back behind the TV somewhere...

The first r600 is most propably gddr3 version (I think that it was mentioned in one press release). The gddr4 version will become later. (When gddr4 is more affordable...) I think that we will see some price drop with first r600 at the same time.
The second gdd4 ediotion will be priced very close the to G80...

If R630XT is $200 and doesn't outperform a $130 X1900GT, then I wouldn't call it a good offer. It needs to offer almost the performance of a $200 X1950XT to be worthy of that praise. then again if X19xx supply dries up, then these might offer the best bang available for the buck, while having other advantages too.